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Sunday, December 01, 2013

Michael Moorcock cover gallery

Note: normally, my cover galleries include information about each British paperback edition. Unfortunately, all the data was wiped out when the original post disappeared two days before it was due to appear. The post was ready to go . . . then it mysteriously vanished. I have no idea why. I will eventually recompile the information, but, in the meantime, I've re-uploaded all the cover scans.

Warrior of Mars (Kane; by Edward P. Bradbury). London, Compact, 1965; New York, Lancer, 1966; as City of the Beast (by Moorcock), New York, Lancer, 1970; London, New English Library, 1971; also as Warriors of Mars by Moorcock, New York, Ace, Mar 1991.

Blades of Mars (Kane; by Edward P. Bradbury). London, Compact, 1965; New York, Lancer, 1966; as Lord of the Spiders (by Moorcock), New York, Lancer, 1971; London, New English Library, 1971; also reprinted under original title as by Moorcock, New York, Ace, May 1991.

Barbarians of Mars (Kane; by Edward P. Bradbury). London, Compact, 1965; New York, Lancer, 1966; as Masters of the Pit (by Moorcock), New York, Lancer, 1971; New English Library, 1971; also reprinted under original title as by Moorcock, New York, Ace, Jul 1991.

The End of All Songs (End of Time). London, Hart-Davis McGibbon, Nov 1976; New York, Harper & Row, 1977.

The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming (End of Time). London, W.H. Allen, Feb 1977; as A Messiah At the End of Time, New York, DAW Books, 1978; revised as Constant Fire, Legends from the End of Time, London, Millennium, 2003.

The Time Dweller. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969; New York, Berkley, 1971.
(contains: The Time Dweller; Escape from Evening; The Dream Fix; The Golden Barge; Wolf; Consuming Passion; The Ruins; The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius; The Mountain)

The Jade Man’s Eyes. Brighton, Unicorn, 1973; later revised as “Sailing To the Past” and incorporated into Sailor on the Seas of Fate.
Unicorn Bookshop 0856-59010-X, 1973, 75pp. Cover by James Cawthorn

Legends From the End of Time (End of Time). London, W.H. Allen, Aug 1976; New York, Harper & Row, 1976; expanded, London, Millenium, Oct 1993; revised and corrected, London, Orion, Jun 1997; White Wolf, May 1999.
(contains: Pale Roses, White Stars, Ancient Shadows. Millennium edition adds a new Foreword, Constant Fire [an extract from The Transformation of Miss Mavis Wing] and Elric at the End of Time. The Orion edition includes the complete version of Constant Fire [erroneously omitted, bar a revised chapter, from the previous edition] and the full version of Elric at the End of Time [missing the last six lines in the previous edition])

The Cornelius Chronicles. New York, Avon, Aug 1977; as The Cornelius Chronicles: Book One and Book Two, London, Fontana, 2 vols., Oct 1988; as The Cornelius Quartet, London, Phoenix House, Sep 1993; New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, May 2001.
(contains: The Repossession of Jerry Cornelius by John Clute (ar); revised (Fontana, 1979) text versions of The Final Programme, A Cure For Cancer, The English Assassin, The Conditions of Muzak. The Phoenix edition omits the introduction by John Clute.)
Phoenix House 1897-58050-9, 1993, 855pp.
Vol.1, Fontana 0006-17688-7, 1988.
Vol.2, Fontana 0006-17689-5, 1988.

The Swords Trilogy. New York, Berkley, Aug 1977; as The Swords of Corum. London, Grafton, Jul 1986; as Corum, London, Millennium, Nov 1992; with minor revisions as Corum: The Coming of Chaos, London, Millennium, Feb 1996; White Wolf, Feb 1997; as Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, London, Orion/Gollancz, Jun 2002.
(contains: The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, The King of the Swords. Millennium edition adds new foreword.)
as The Swords of Corum, Grafton 0586-06746-9, 1986, 509pp.
as Corum: The Coming of Chaos, Millennium 0752-80277-1, 1996, 486pp.
as Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe, Gollancz 0575-07366-7 [Fantasy Masterworks 30], 2002, 486pp.

Sojan. Manchester, Savoy, Sep 1977.
(contains: Introduction; The Stone Thing; The Dying Castles; Sojan the Swordsman; Sojan, Swordsman of Zylor; Sojan and the Demons; Sojan and the Plain of Mystery; Sojan and the Sons of the Snake-God; Sojan and the Devil Hunters of Norj; Klan the Spoiler; Dek of Noothar; Rens Karto of Bersnol; The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné (ar); Elric (ar); New Worlds—Jerry Cornelius (ar); In Lighter Vein (ar))
Savoy 0704-50241-0, 1977, 157pp. Cover by James Cawthorn

The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric). New York, DAW Books, Mar 1977; UK: 1984
(contains: The Dreams of Earl Aubec; The Dreaming City; While the Gods Laugh; The Singing Citadel)

The Chronicles of Corum. New York, Berkley, 1978; London, Grafton, Nov 1986; with revised texts as The Prince with the Silver Hand. London, Millennium, Aug 1993; with further minor revisions, London, Orion, Apr 1997; White Wolf, Feb 1999; as Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand, New York, SFBC, Jul 1999; London, Gollancz, 2013.
(contains: The Bull and the Spear, The Oak and the Ram, The Sword and the Stallion)
Grafton 0586-06745-0, 1987, 454pp.
as Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand, Gollancz 978-0575-10547-8, 2013, xviii+426pp.

Warrior of Mars (City of the Beast, Lord of the Spiders, Masters of the Pit). London, New English Library, 1981; as Kane of Old Mars, White Wolf, Feb 1998.
(contains: City of the Beast, Lord of the Spiders, Masters of the Pit. White Wolf editions adds a new Introduction.)
New English Library 0450-04830-6, 1981. 384pp.
New English Library 0450-05895-6 [3rd imp.] 1986, 384pp.

The Nomad of Time. New York, SFBC, 1982; London, Panther, 1984; with revised texts as A Nomad of the Time Streams, London, Millenium, Mar 1993; with minor corrections, London, Millennium, Jun 1996; White Wolf, Apr 1997.
(contains: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar. The Millennium edition adds a Foreword and revised texts. The White Wolf edition has a reivised introduction.)
Panther 0586-06135-5, 1984, 153pp.
as A Nomad of the Time Streams, Millennium 1857-98033-6, 1993, 457pp.
as A Nomad of the Time Streams, Millennium 1867-98448-X, 1996, 549pp.

Elric At the End of Time. London, New English Library, May 1984; New York, DAW Books, May 1985; title story later published seperately, illus. Rodney Matthews, Paper Tiger, Jun 1987.
(contains: Introduction (ar); Elric at the End of Time; The Last Enchantment; The Secret Life of Elric of Meniboné (ar); Sojan the Swordsman; New Worlds—Jerry Cornelius (ar); In Lighter Vein (ar); The Stone Thing)

The Elric Saga Part I. New York, SFBC, Jun 1984
(contains: Elric of Melniboné, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Weird of the White Wolf)

The Elric Saga Part II. New York, SFBC, Sep 1984.
(contains: The Vanishing Tower, The Bane of the Black Sword, Stormbringer)

The Cornelius Chronicles Vol II. New York, Avon, Aug 1986.
(contains: The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (ar), The Peking Junction, The Delhi Division, The Tank Trapeze, The Nature of the Catastrophe, The Swastika Set-Up, The Sunset Perspective, Sea Wolves, Voortrekker, Dead Singers, The Longford Cup, The Entropy Circuit, The Entropy Tango, For One Day Only: Two Mighty Empires Clash; The Kassandra Peninsula; Revolutions; The Minstrel Girl; Harlequin’s Lament)

Tales From the End of Time. New York, SFBC, Aug 1989.
(contains: Legends From the End of Time, A Messiah At the End of Time)

Casablanca. London, Gollancz, Dec 1989
(contains: Introduction (ar); Casablanca; The Frozen Cardinal; Hanging the Fool; The Murderer’s Song; The Last Call; Introduction (ar); Scratching a Living (ar); Mervyn Peake (ar); Harlan Ellison (ar); A Fiercer Hen (ar); Angus Wilson (ar); Andrea Dworkin (ar); Maeve Gilmore (ar); Taking the Life Out of London (ar); The Smell of Old Vienna (ar); Literally London (ar); People of the Book (ar); London Lost and Found (ar); Building the New Jerusalem (ar); Who’s Really Covering Up (ar); What Feminism Has Done For Me (ar); Caught Up in Reality (ar); Anti-Personnel Capability (ar); The Case Against Pornography (ar); Adding to the Legend (ar); Gold Diggers of 1977 (Ten Claims That Won Our Hearts))

Earl Aubec and Other Stories. London, Millennium, Nov 1993; with minor revisions, London, Orion, Dec 1997; White Wolf, Nov 1999.
(contains: Foreword (ar); Earl Aubec; Jesting with Chaos; The Greater Conqueror; Going Home; Hanging the Fool; Consuming Passions; Wolf; Environment Problem; The Opium General; A Dead Singer; The Lovebeast; The Ruins; The Golden Barge: A Fable, The Deep Fix, The Real Life Mr Newman (Adventures of a Dead Astronaut), Good-Bye Miranda, Islands, Casablanca: An Episode in the Third World War, Going to Canada, Leaving Pasadena, Crossing into Cambodia, Mars, The Frozen Cardinal, Peace on Earth, The End, The Mountain, The Time Dwellers, Escape from Evening, Waiting for the End of Time…, The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts, The Last Call, My Life, The Museum of the Future: Homage to H. G. Wells and The Time Machine, 1895, To Rescue Talelorn…)

The Roads Between the Worlds: The Eternal Champion Volume 6. White Wolf, Aug 1996.
(contains: Introduction (ar), The Wrecks of Time, The Winds of Limbo, The Shores of Death with framing passages)
(no UK paperback)

London Bone. London, Scribner UK, May 2001.
(contains: A Winder Admiral, London Blood, Doves in the Circle, The Clapham Antichrist, London Bone, The Cairene Purse, Furniture, Through the Shaving Mirror; or, How We Abolished the Future, Lost London Writers (ar))

Firing the Cathedral. Harrogate, PS Publishing, Oct 2002.

The Elric Saga, Part III. New York, SFBC, Jan 2003.
(contains: The Fortress of the Pearl, The Revenge of the Rose)

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, Sep 2003.
(contains: Introduction (ar), The Peking Junction, The Delhi Division, The Tank Trapeze, The Swastika Set-Up, The Sunset Perspective, Sea Wolves, Voortrekker, The Spencer Inheritance, The Camus Connection, Cheering for the Rockets, Firing the Cathedral)

Metatemporal Detective. New York, Prometheus Books, Nov 2007.
(contains: The Affair of the Seven Virgins; Crimson Eyes; The Ghost Warriors; The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade; The Case of the Nazi Canary; Sir Milk-and-Blood; The Mystery of the Texas Twister; London Flesh; The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius; The Affair of Le Bassin des Hivers; The Flaneur des arcades de l’Opera)

Elric The Stealer of Souls: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné Volume 1. New York, Del Rey, 2008.
(contains: Putting a Tag on It; The Dreaming City; The Stealer of Souls; Kings in Darkness, with James Cawthorn); The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams; Mission to Asno; Origins; Dead God’s Homecoming; Black Sword’s Brothers; Sad Giant’s Shield; Doomed Lord’s Passing; Elric; The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné; Final Judgement by Alan Forrest; The Zenith Letter (by Anthony Skene)

Elric To Rescue Tanelorn: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné Volume 2. New York, Del Rey, 2008.
(contains: The Eternal Champion; To Rescue Tanelorn; The Last Enchantment (Jesting with Chaos); The Greater Conqueror; Master of Chaos (Earl Aubec); Phase 1: A Jerry Cornelius Story; The Singing Citadel; The Jade Man’s Eyes; The Stone Thing; Elric at the End of Time; The Black Blade’s Song (The White Wolf’s Song); Crimson Eyes; Sir Milk-and-Blood; The Roaming Forest; Origins)

Elric The Sleeping Sorceress: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone Volume 3. New York, Del Rey, 2008.
(contains: The Sleeping Sorceress; And so the Great Emperor Received His Education; Elric of Melniboné; Aspects of Fantasy (1); Elric of Meniboné: Introduction to the Graphic Adaptation; El Cid and Elric: Under the Influence!; Origins)

The Best of Michael Moorcock, ed. John Davey with Ann & Jeff VanDerMeer. San Francisco, CA, Tachyon, 2009.
(contains: A Portrait in Ivory; The Visible Men; A Dead Singer; Lunching with the Antichrist; The Opium General; Behold the Man; A Winter Admiral; London Bone; Colour; Going to Canada; Leaving Pasadena; Crossing Into Cambodia; Doves in the Circle; The Deep Fix; The Birds of the Moon; The Cairene Purse; A Slow Saturday Night at the Surrealist Sporting Club)

Duke Elric: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné Volume 4. New York, Del Rey, 2009.
(contains: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; Duke Elric; Aspects of Fantasy (2); The Flaneur des Arcades de l’Opera; Elric: A Personality at War; Origins)

Elric In the Dream Realms: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné Volume 5. New York, Del Rey, 2009.
(contains: The Fortress of the Pearl; Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer; A Portrait in Ivory; Aspects of Fantasy (3); Earl Aubec of Malador; Introduction to the Taiwan Edition of Elric; One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock by Neil Gaiman; Origins)

Elric Swords and Roses: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné Volume 6. New York, Del Rey, 2010.
(contains: The Revenge of the Rose; Stormbringer: First Draft Screenplay; Black Petals; Aspects of Fantasy (4); Introduction to The Skrayling Tree; Introduction to the French Edition of Elric; Elric: A New Reader’s Guide; Origins)

Elric of Melnibone and other stories. London, Gollancz, 2013.
(contains: Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by John Clute (ar);
Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by Michael Moorcock
(ar); The Return of the Thin White Duke by Alan Moore (ar); Putting a Tag on It by Michael Moorcock (ar); Master of Chaos; Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer; And So the Great Emperor Received His Education...; Elric of Melnibone; Aspects of Fantasy: 1: Introduction by Michael Moorcock (ar); Introduction (to Elric of Melnibone, Graphic Adaptation, 1986) by Michael Moorcock (ar); El Cid and Elric: Under the Influence! by Michael Moorcock (ar))
Gollancz 978-11309-1, (May) 2013, xx+359pp, £8.99. Cover by Michael Whelan

Elric: The Sailor of on the Seas of Fate. London, Gollancz, 2013.
(contains: Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by John Clute (ar);
Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by Michael Moorcock
(ar); Foreword by Michael Chabon (ar); Introduction to the Audiorealms Version of Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock (ar); The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; The Dreaming City; A Portrait in Ivory; While the Gods Laugh; The Singing Citadel; Aspects of Fantasy: 3: Figures of Faust by Michael Moorcock (ar); Elric: A Personality at War by Adrian Snook (ar))
Gollancz 978-0575-11360-2, (Sep) 2013, xx+326pp, £8.99. Cover by Michael Whelan

Elric: The Revenge of the Rose. London, Gollancz, 2014
(contains: Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by John Clute (ar);
Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by Michael Moorcock
(ar); Foreword by Holly Black; The Revenge of the Rose; The Stealer of Souls; Kings in Darkness; The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams; The Last Enchantment (Jesting with Chaos); To Rescue Tanelorn...; Introduction to the French Omnibus Edition of Elric (ar))
Gollancz 978-0575-11410-4, (Jan) 2014, xx+426pp, £8.99. Cover by Robert Gould

Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and Times, ed. John Davey. London, Gollancz, 2014
(contains: Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by John Clute (ar); Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection by Michael Moorcock (ar); The Peking Junction; The Delhi Division;
The Tank Trapeze; The Nature of the Catastrophe; The Swastika Set-Up; The Sunset Perspective; Sea
Wolves; Voortrekker; Dead Singers; The Longford Cup; The Entropy Circuit; The Entropy Circuit (fragment); The Murderer's Song; The Gangrene Collection; The Romanian Question; The Spencer Inheritance; The Camus Connection;
Cheering for the Rockets; The Visible Man; Walking the Hog; Epilogue: The Dodgem Decision)
Gollancz 978-1473-20072-2, (May) 2014, 389pp, £9.99.

My Experiences in the Third World War and other stories. London, Gollancz, 2014.
Gollancz 978-0575-11505-7, (Oct) 2014, xviii+305pp, £9.99.

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